Snake

Grecian goddess 

unprepared photograph,

she tilts her head to the left 

and the sun shines the way we want it to.

I was Effy Stonem first.

I was born broken, 

my father must have dropped me.

No one ever held me right,

especially not when I was fourteen.

I never see with my eyes.

I think I must have a heart for eyes,

and no heart where 

my heart should be.

Collarbones cradling nickles,

she is stronger than any man

by the daggers of her irises - 

she swallows you immediately, that medusa.